Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition / / edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, K.F. Diethard Romheld ; in association with Lance Lazar.
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice...
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Superior document: | Numen book series, v. 112 |
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld
- Ritual Killing and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
- Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture / Gabriele Weiler
- The Theological Implications of Child in and beyond the Biblical Context in Relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 / Michaela Bauks
- The First-Born between Sacrifice and Redemption in the Hebrew Bible / Karin Finsterbusch
- “They Burn Their Sons and Daughters. That Was No Command of Mine” (Jer 7:31) / Armin Lange
- Molek: Dead or Alive? / Bennie H. Reynolds
- Jewish Views of Human Sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman Period / Katell Berthelot
- Gender Difference and the Rabbis / Tal Ilan
- Human Sacrifice and Pauline Christology / Peter Lampe
- The Collective Suicides in the Persecutions of 1096 as Sacrificial Acts / Rainer Walz
- God’s Sacrifice of Himself as a Man / Jasper Hopkins
- Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling,” the Sacrifice of Isaac, and the Critique of Christendom / Christopher Roberts
- “Euthanasia” and Experiments on Human Beings [Part I: “Euthanasia”] (1947) / Udo Benzenhöfer , Wilhelm Rimpau and Viktor von Weizsäcker
- Still Ransoming the First-Born Sons? / Yaakov Ariel
- Slaughter and Innocence: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Contemporary Arguments Supporting the Death Penalty / Randall Styers
- Subjects / Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld
- References / Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld.